Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.

Like many indigenous populations worldwide, Yucatec Maya communities are rapidly undergoing change as they become more connected with urban centers and access to formal education, wage labour, and market goods became more accessible to their inhabitants. However, little is known about how these chan...

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Autores principales:	Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Amanda L Woodward, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Laura A Shneidman
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b7606134d2b946eaae3bedee493caa312021-12-02T20:10:20ZChanging language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252926https://doaj.org/article/b7606134d2b946eaae3bedee493caa312021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252926https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Like many indigenous populations worldwide, Yucatec Maya communities are rapidly undergoing change as they become more connected with urban centers and access to formal education, wage labour, and market goods became more accessible to their inhabitants. However, little is known about how these changes affect children's language input. Here, we provide the first systematic assessment of the quantity, type, source, and language of the input received by 29 Yucatec Maya infants born six years apart in communities where increased contact with urban centres has resulted in a greater exposure to the dominant surrounding language, Spanish. Results show that infants from the second cohort received less directed input than infants in the first and, when directly addressed, most of their input was in Spanish. To investigate the mechanisms driving the observed patterns, we interviewed 126 adults from the communities. Against common assumptions, we showed that reductions in Mayan input did not simply result from speakers devaluing the Maya language. Instead, changes in input could be attributed to changes in childcare practices, as well as caregiver ethnotheories regarding the relative acquisition difficulty of each of the languages. Our study highlights the need for understanding the drivers of individual behaviour in the face of socio-demographic and economic changes as it is key for determining the fate of linguistic diversity.Cecilia Padilla-IglesiasAmanda L WoodwardSusan Goldin-MeadowLaura A ShneidmanPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0252926 (2021)
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description	Like many indigenous populations worldwide, Yucatec Maya communities are rapidly undergoing change as they become more connected with urban centers and access to formal education, wage labour, and market goods became more accessible to their inhabitants. However, little is known about how these changes affect children's language input. Here, we provide the first systematic assessment of the quantity, type, source, and language of the input received by 29 Yucatec Maya infants born six years apart in communities where increased contact with urban centres has resulted in a greater exposure to the dominant surrounding language, Spanish. Results show that infants from the second cohort received less directed input than infants in the first and, when directly addressed, most of their input was in Spanish. To investigate the mechanisms driving the observed patterns, we interviewed 126 adults from the communities. Against common assumptions, we showed that reductions in Mayan input did not simply result from speakers devaluing the Maya language. Instead, changes in input could be attributed to changes in childcare practices, as well as caregiver ethnotheories regarding the relative acquisition difficulty of each of the languages. Our study highlights the need for understanding the drivers of individual behaviour in the face of socio-demographic and economic changes as it is key for determining the fate of linguistic diversity.
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author	Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias Amanda L Woodward Susan Goldin-Meadow Laura A Shneidman
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title	Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.
title_short	Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.
title_full	Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.
title_fullStr	Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.
title_full_unstemmed	Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.
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Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.

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